The wife made friends with the innkeeper who is a buddy of ours now. She has been to our house in Brooklyn and shopped in the store. So we hung out a lot because we were the only ones in the B&B here in the fall. She also brought her boyfriend along so we had a pretty fun time.
We went to a couple of winery's and a place that specialized in sparking wine of which I will talk about later. But after the trip to the Glenn Point winery we decided to go to this restaurant on the beach called "The Elbow Room."
There are three elbow rooms out east and this was the latest one in Jamesport. It had the vibe of a local place especially since it was off season and it was empty on a Tuesday night. A couple of local fisherman were hoisting beers at the bar and it had my favorite touch: a football pool behind the bar. That tells you that they have locals and that it is my kind of joint.
Well Coleen and Doc went to town on the seafood. They started with a dozen oysters and then went on to a big bowl of steamers dipping them in broth and then butter. Lisa and I had the fried platter which was deep fried zuchinnii, mushrooms and califlower. It was great.
Then we went for a salad dish which was deliscious as it was all local greens and veggies right from the farm.
Finally Lisa and Doc opted for the filet mignon which looked really tasty. Colleen and I both went for the meatloaf. It is pretty funny but the two people who cook went for the meat loaf platter. It was great with garlic mashed potatoes and broccoli.
We had a bottle of Sparkling wine from the Sparkling Pointe vineyard where we had been doing a tasting menu. The 2007 Blanc de Blancs was very tasty and went well with the seafood. Not so much with the red meat but waddayagonnado? I mean I always order red wine when we go out and everyone goes along with me so I can return the favor. What was cool was that we drank the whole bottle but were still eating and the waitress went and got us all another round on the arm. So they knew how to do it. Of course Doc and I looked like we knew our way around a bar so she wasn't worried. When we split the bill right down the middle she did just great.
All in all it was a surprisingly regular guy experience in the midst of the tony Hamptons.
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All these reg'lar guy joints are usually so dark you have to tell 'em to put the meat at 3 o'clock. But whaddaIknow. There are worlds within worlds out there. Today I read a story in the Post that it's a reg'lar crisis among New York's movers and shakers because the Regency Hotel is shutting down for a year for a major overhaul and the crisis is that there's a restaurant in the Regency, the name of which I don't remember as I already threw the paper out, but anyway so many movers and shakers eat breakfast at this joint and network there and do deals there that it's like the end of the world that they'll have to go elsewhere to have breakfast for a year. This is a level of society that I sorta vaguely know exists but have never and will never have any contact with it. In other words it might as well be on Mars.
I was gonna say that "Tony Hampton" would make a great name for a lounge singer, so I did a quick search to see if there was such a person.
It turns out that it's the name of a former gay porn actor.
This was brightly lit ricpic.
The thing is you have to try to make yourself at home even when it is someone else's house.
Sounds like fun.
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